In the image and likeness: machine, man, and imaginaries in circulation 227 dilemma between protection and adherence, integration and exclusion. Pressed by the lack of time, they go with the flow. Scene 3 depicts a typical subject, much like any of us, in a world that could fit into a dystopian narrative (extensively explored by Jean Pierre Bocca in his 2021 master’s thesis su- pervised by Professor José Luiz Braga, for instance), aiming to question the role of the machinic in society. Common to all three reported scenes is the reference to an imaginary man-machine relationship, perhaps as old as humanity itself. Machines as ex- tensions (McLuhan, 2003), symbiotic entities (Rosnay, 1997), machines of vision (Vilirio, 2002), and war machines (Deleuze and Guattari, 1996). Despite temporal and conceptual differ- ences, the discussion of the man-machine relationship has been permeating the development of society and is consequently, linked to what Verón, in 2014, called a semio-anthropological perspective regarding mediatization. According to Véron, Mediatization is certainly not a universal process characterizing all human societies, past and pres- ent, but it is nevertheless an operational result of a core dimension of our biological species, namely its capability of semiosis. This capability has been progressively activated, for diverse reasons, in various historical contexts and has therefore taken many forms. However, some of its consequences were present in our evolutionary history from the beginning and profoundly affected the social or- ganization of Western societies a long time before modernity (Verón, 2014, p. 14) Verón sees the consequences of the media phenome- non of externalizing mental processes, hence mediatization, as the acceleration of historical time and the disruptions between space and time created by technical devices. In the scenes previ- ously reported, space and time intersect, weaving the past, pres- ent, and future into a sort of amalgam. The infinite capacity for semiosis is constantly triggered, and media phenomena become a precondition for complex social systems. The idea of infinite semiosis is linked to the notion of producing meaning. In these scenes, the narrative alone allows
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